About Me



I am a GenXer who has lived an abundant life with eye-opening experiences. From Wall Street to Hollywood, I've mingled with some colorful characters and done some surprising and outrageous things myself.  I am a sucker for information and knowledge and I wish I had this thirst for education when I was still in school. Now I simply hope my messages pontifications and explorations will benefit someone out there in the big beautiful world.

I am not on the verge of retirement -- at least I am looking at it shortly, and I wish I had done some things differently. Hindsight is 20/20 vision, so hopefully someone reading my thoughts and perspectives will benefit from my backward vision, so to speak.

After divorce at the age of 48. I was pretty much resigned to live life on my own, and certainly on my own terms. I had four goals, get my four children into college to ensure they become productive members of society. I didn't think about relationships and I most definitely was anti-marriage. But that changed for me, as you can read my in other blog at www.angelojbell.com when I took my first international trip and met my future wife, Nghīa.


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